Custom Fusions

Washington Mills offers unique Product Development Services which allow customers to explore new material ideas and formulations without costly capital investments. Customers can capitalize on our knowledgeable staff and fully equipped pilot-scale processing plant to create experimental lots of various mineral types, producing small-scale and sample-size custom fusions to support the vital testing and iterating central to product development.

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You choose the material, and we’ll fuse it for you.

We offer:

  • Electric arc furnaces specially designed for fusing small quantities
  • Custom fusions from 5 lbs. to 300+ tons
  • More than 100 years of electric arc fusion and materials expertise

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Pilot-Scale Processing Plant

With our fully equipped pilot processing plant, we offer partners the ability to:

  • Crush, grind and magnetically separate materials
  • Heat treat and surface treat new product compositions
  • Co-fuse varying percentages of oxides and other materials to your exact preferences
  • Develop with confidence and confidentiality
     

We provide our partners access to:

  • Integrated resources for engineering, manufacturing and research
  • Extensive know-how on scaling up from lab to production
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NUW-LHT-5M

Originally designed in collaboration with NASA and the USGS, this high-fidelity regolith simulant is the most representative lunar highlands material ever developed, allowing engineering teams to validate designs, identify failure modes, and close performance margins earlier and with greater confidence.